AFNI HISTORY

level 3 and higher

The levels of importance go from 1 to 5, with meanings:
       1 - users would not care
       2 - of little importance, though some users might care
       3 - fairly important
       4 - a big change or new program
       5 - IMPORTANT: we expect users to know


generated via the command : afni_history -html -reverse -min_level 3 -past_years 2 

---- log of AFNI updates (most recent first) ---- 17 Nov 2009, ZS Saad, suma, level 3 (MAJOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) SUMA now handles labeled datatets in a special manner An example of a labeled dataset would be FreeSurfer's annotation files. If an annotation file is present in the spec file (@SUMA_Make_Spec_FS), SUMA will display it as part of the background. You can chose to display the labeled dataset in color, contours, or both. Data from labeled datasets is now shown under the 'Lbl' field in the surface controller's Xhair block.
19 Oct 2009, DR Glen, align_epi_anat.py, level 3 (MAJOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) New master options, dset1/2 terminology New master_nnn_dxyz options to specify output resolution dset1 and dset2 for non-EPI/anat alignment with lpa cost function and turns off preprocessing steps giant_move option turns off resampling and changes master options Expanded help - including fuller description of edge method Removed volume registration (motion correction) for anat2epi option by default. AFNI dataset views (+orig/+acpc/+tlrc) are maintained in output depending on BASE, SOURCE or external dataset names for all output
06 Oct 2009, ZS Saad, suma, level 3 (MAJOR), type 4 (BUG_FIX) More bug fixes related to ROI loading, and OSX's GLX problem
29 Sep 2009, RW Cox, afni, level 3 (MAJOR), type 5 (MODIFY) InstaCalc is more-or-less ready At least, I let Mike Beauchamp test it for his cunning plans.
24 Sep 2009, ZS Saad, suma, level 3 (MAJOR), type 4 (BUG_FIX) Fixed crashes on OS X 10.5 caused by OS X's buggy GLX implementation
22 Jul 2009, RC Reynolds, realtime_reaceiver.py, level 3 (MAJOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) python replacement for serial helper New 'data_choice' options can be added to compute_data_for_serial_port for sending results of a different computation to the serial port.
16 Jul 2009, RC Reynolds, realtime_receiver.py, level 3 (MAJOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) replacement for serial_helper
17 Jun 2009, RC Reynolds, afni_proc.py, level 3 (MAJOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) version 2.0 : call e2a alignment and warp to standard space ready - mask warped EPI by its extents (at volreg step) - added -volreg_no_extent_mask, to block this masking - added 'extents' to list of mask in -mask_apply - change block dividers to more visual '===' with block names
20 May 2009, G Chen, 3dMEMA.R, level 4 (SUPER), type 1 (NEW_PROG) Mixed-Effects Meta Analysis (MEMA) This is an R program that runs group analysis in a truly random mixed-effects sense by taking both beta and t-statistic as input instead of beta value only in the conventional method. See more details at http://afni.nimh.nih.gov/sscc/gangc/MEMA.html
19 May 2009, ZS Saad, @ROI_Corr_Mat, level 3 (MAJOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) A script to calculate correlation matrices between ROI time series Calculates the correlation matrices between average time series from ROIs defined in a mask volume. Script was written with Hang Joon Jo.
15 May 2009, RC Reynolds, afni_proc.py, level 3 (MAJOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) added -volreg_tlrc_warp option: can warp to standard space at volreg step
06 May 2009, RW Cox, afni, level 3 (MAJOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) First edition of InstaCorr! Rough around the edges, but gnarly-ific to the level of the first inaccessible cardinal!
09 Apr 2009, RC Reynolds, afni_proc.py, level 3 (MAJOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) 'official' release with RETROICOR processing block: ricor o added 'across-runs' ricor_regress_method o added ricor information and usage to help (see 'RETROICOR NOTE') o maintain unscaled shorts if they are input o added -ricor_datum
19 Mar 2009, RC Reynolds, 1d_tool.py, level 3 (MAJOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) added lib_afni1D.py and 1d_tool.py This is a library and tool for manipulating 1D files. Many functions will still be added.
22 Dec 2008, G Chen, 3dICC.R, level 3 (MAJOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) IntraClass Correlation (ICC) This is an R program that calculates ICC on 3D volume data based on a two- or three-way random-effects ANOVA scheme. See more details at http://afni.nimh.nih.gov/sscc/gangc/ICC
16 Dec 2008, G Chen, 3dGC.R, level 3 (MAJOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) Bivariate Granger causality analysis This is an R program that runs Granger causality analysis with a seed region versus the rest of the brain. See more details at http://afni.nimh.nih.gov/sscc/gangc/3dGC
13 Dec 2008, ZS Saad, afni-matlab, level 3 (MAJOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) RetroTS creates regressors for cardiac, respiratory, and RVT filtering RetroTS.m and accompanying functions create slice-based regressors for regressing out the effects of cardiac, respiratory, and RVT effects from FMRI time series. The regressors generated are meant to be used with 3dREMLfit.
02 Dec 2008, ZS Saad, SpharmReco, level 3 (MAJOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) Reconstructs data from spherical harmonics decomposition. See SpharmDeco -help and the demo script @Spharm.examples for details. 02 Dec 2008, ZS Saad, SpharmDeco, level 3 (MAJOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) Performs spherical harmonics decomposition. This program performs spherical harmonics decomposition for surfaces' geometry and/or surface-based data See SpharmReco -help and the demo script @Spharm.examples for details. 02 Dec 2008, ZS Saad, @Spharm.examples, level 3 (MAJOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) A script to demonstrate the usage of SpharmDeco and SpharmReco 02 Dec 2008, ZS Saad, @NoisySkullStrip, level 3 (MAJOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) A script to improve skull stripping in noisy of heavily shaded data
01 Dec 2008, RC Reynolds, timing_tool.py, level 3 (MAJOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) a tool for manipulating and evaluating stimulus timing files This is useful for getting statistics on rest timing.
21 Nov 2008, ZS Saad, @fast_roi, level 3 (MAJOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) Creates Atlas-based ROIs in original space for real-time experiments
24 Oct 2008, RC Reynolds, xmat_tool.py, level 4 (SUPER), type 1 (NEW_PROG) program to inspect a .xmat.1D X-matrix, possibly against a time series This is a Graphical tool for plotting a design matrix, reviewing condition numbers or the correlation matrix, and fitting to a 1D time series.
09 Oct 2008, G Chen, 1dGC.R, level 4 (SUPER), type 1 (NEW_PROG) Multivariate Granger causality analysis This is an R program that runs Granger causality analysis among a few pre-select regions. See more details at http://afni.nimh.nih.gov/sscc/gangc/1dGC
29 Sep 2008, RC Reynolds, 3dmatmult, level 3 (MAJOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) program to multiply AFNI datasets slice-by-slice as matrices
29 Aug 2008, ZS Saad, ExamineXmatR, level 3 (MAJOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) An interactive tool to examine a design matrix
28 Aug 2008, RW Cox, 3dAllineate, level 3 (MAJOR), type 5 (MODIFY) A number of changes to improve robustness. * Don't smooth noise added to source image outside of the mask * Reduce default smoothing level for -lpc in coarse pass * Increase number of points used for matching in the coarse pass * More refinements of the twobest results in the coarse pass * Refinements (-num_rtb option) of the twobest results in the fine pass All this adds CPU time, but seems to make the program more reliably convergent. Also: * Restored operation of the -check option, to restart the optimization at the final solution with other methods, to see what results they give compared to the original method.
21 Aug 2008, RW Cox, 3dREMLfit, level 4 (SUPER), type 1 (NEW_PROG) Program to mimic 3dDeconvolve, but with serial correlations Uses ARMA(1,1) model of noise, separately for each voxel.
10 Jul 2008, RC Reynolds, plug_realtime, level 3 (MAJOR), type 5 (MODIFY) receive oblique transform matrix via new OBLIQUE_XFORM interface 10 Jul 2008, RC Reynolds, Dimon, level 3 (MAJOR), type 5 (MODIFY) if the data is oblique, pass the transformation matrix to plug_realtime
27 Jun 2008, RC Reynolds, gen_epi_review.py, level 3 (MAJOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) generate afni/drive_afni script to review initial EPI data This program was written to be called from the afni_proc.py output script.
11 Jun 2008, DR Glen, align_epi_anat.py, level 3 (MAJOR), type 5 (MODIFY) Obliquity handling in alignment, more grid options
09 May 2008, ZS Saad, 3dROIstats, level 3 (MAJOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) Added option -1Dformat to output results in 1D format
08 May 2008, ZS Saad, 3dsvm, level 3 (MAJOR), type 4 (BUG_FIX) Fixed memory corruption caused by improper declaration of combName
07 May 2008, RC Reynolds, make_random_timing.py, level 3 (MAJOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) generate random stimulus timing files This generates random timing files suitable for use in 3dDeconvolve. The timing is not restricted to a TR grid, though that is possible. Consider use with '3dDeconvolve -nodata'.
07 Apr 2008, DR Glen, align_epi_anat.py, level 4 (SUPER), type 1 (NEW_PROG) Alignment of EPI and Anatomical datasets Aligns anat and EPI data. Alignment is in either direction of anat to epi or epi to anat. Transformations are combined where possible as from time series registration and talairach transformations. Multiple child epi datasets may be aligned at the same time.
10 Mar 2008, RC Reynolds, SUMA_SurfMeasures, level 3 (MAJOR), type 4 (BUG_FIX) averages did not include nodes lost to -cmask Noticed by M Beauchamp.
05 Mar 2008, ZS Saad, suma-general, level 3 (MAJOR), type 0 (GENERAL) Support for GIFTI surface format writing GIFTI writing can now be done with SUMA programs. For example, see options -o_gii and -xml* in ConvertSurface program.
29 Feb 2008, G Chen, 3dICA.R, level 4 (SUPER), type 1 (NEW_PROG) Independent component analysis This is an R program that runs independent component analysis. It takes one dataset that presumably has already been properly pre-processed.already been properly pre-processed. See more details at http://afni.nimh.nih.gov/sscc/gangc/ica.html
28 Feb 2008, ZS Saad, suma-general, level 3 (MAJOR), type 3 (NEW_ENV) Support for GIFTI surface format reading
27 Feb 2008, ZS Saad, suma, level 3 (MAJOR), type 0 (GENERAL) Addition of p and q values under threshold bar Use BHelp on p and q text in suma to get more info. 27 Feb 2008, RW Cox, 3dTfitter, level 3 (MAJOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) add deconvolution via the '-FALTUNG' option Unlike 3dDeconvolve, this deconvolution is to find the input time series, given the impulse response function. 27 Feb 2008, RC Reynolds, afni_history, level 4 (SUPER), type 1 (NEW_PROG) program to display the history of AFNI updates This will be used to create a web page of AFNI updates. Please see 'afni_history -help' for more details.
25 Feb 2008, RC Reynolds, plug_vol2surf, level 3 (MAJOR), type 4 (BUG_FIX) fixed application of cluster for sending data to suma Previously, clustering was only applied when the Olay and Thr sub-bricks were the same.
21 Feb 2008, RC Reynolds, GIFTI, level 4 (SUPER), type 0 (GENERAL) AFNI programs can now read and write GIFTI datasets GIFTI datasets are for data in the surface domain, with file suffix .gii. Support must be requested at compile time, and it requires libexpat. Please see http://www.nitrc.org/projects/gifti for many details.
16 Feb 2008, RW Cox, 3dTfitter, level 4 (SUPER), type 1 (NEW_PROG) new program = linear fits to voxel time series Uses L1 or L2 regression, with optional constraints to fit each voxel time series as a sum of basis time series, which can be 1D files or 3D+time datasets. Basis time series that are 1D time series are the same for all input voxels. Basis time series that are 3D+time datasets are different for each voxel. Differences from 3dDeconvolve: * Basis time series can vary across voxels. * Fit coefficients can be found with L1 or L2 error functions, and can be constrained to be positive or negative. * 3dTfitter does not compute goodness-of-fit statistics.
14 Feb 2008, ZS Saad, suma, level 3 (MAJOR), type 0 (GENERAL) Graphing of dset content with 'g' A graph of the column content at a node can be plotted This would be the surface equivalent to AFNI's graphing function. See suma's interactive help 'ctrl+h' for more info.
06 Feb 2008, ZS Saad, SurfDist, level 3 (MAJOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) Program to calculate geodesic internodal distances
23 Jan 2008, RW Cox, Miscellaneous, level 3 (MAJOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) Older History stuff * FDR thresh-vs-z(q) curve generation and storage in datasets. * Display FDR q in AFNI pval label. * Generate FDR curves automatically in 3dDeconvolve, and with '-addFDR' option in 3drefit.
12 Jan 2008, ZS Saad, suma, level 3 (MAJOR), type 0 (GENERAL) Scroll lists for I T and B selectors in suma Right click on pulldown menu titles to get a scroll list instead. This makes selecting from a long list of options, or columns, much easier. Right click on 'I' to the left of suma's Intensity Selection button for an illustration.
28 Dec 2007, RC Reynolds, gifti_tool, level 3 (MAJOR), type 1 (NEW_PROG) program to read and write GIFTI datasets
20 Dec 2007, RW Cox, Miscellaneous, level 3 (MAJOR), type 2 (NEW_OPT) Older History stuff * Clusterize reporting window.
19 Dec 2007, ZS Saad, suma-general, level 3 (MAJOR), type 0 (GENERAL) Use of '[i]' to select node index from surface dset Square bracket '[]' selection works for surface-based datasets much like it does for volume-based ones. In addition, one can use '[i]' to select the indices of nodes for which data are defined in a particular surface-based dataset. For more information, see 'SUMA dataset input options:' section in the output of ConvertDset -help .
03 Dec 2007, RC Reynolds, GIFTI, level 3 (MAJOR), type 0 (GENERAL) initial release of gifti I/O C API

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